The UN Says Big Farms Are Bad, and We're Probably All Doomed

The UN came out with a statement yesterday urging worldwide governments to work towards a shift to small-scale farming, saying that the food issues plaguing much of the world in recent years "have revealed deep structural problems in the global food system and the need to increase resources and innovation in agriculture so as to accelerate food production."

Always with the eye on the ball, they also note that there will actually be 9 BILLION PEOPLE living by 2050, so we need to almost double how much food we're making right now.

In slightly cheerier news, the UN also released a report yesterday to let us know that a "new industrial revolution" in green technology, both more dramatic and faster than the first one, is needed to avert a "major planetary catastrophe."

So let's all put that on our "totally reasonable requests" list, somewhere between "grow superpowers" and "reform campaign financing."